New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1948. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), viii, 246 pages. FIRST EDITION. A chronicle of the bucolic Maine farm life of Henry Beston, known today mostly for his magnificent work Herbs and the Earth. Beston and his wife, the poet Elizabeth Coatsworth, lived on a farm in Northern Maine, near the Kennebec River. A classic work of the Rusticator movement. Fine in publisher's green cloth.....
Torino; Turin: Augustae Taurinorum, Apud J.-B. [Jean-Baptiste] Chais, 1736. Quarto (24 x 18.5 cm.), [8], 246, [18] pages. Signatures π A-2H . Illustrated with two large folding engraved plates; woodcut printer’s device and two engraved woodcut initials with architectural scenes. FIRST EDITION. A pharmacopoeia, prepared by doctors at Turin’s medical college at the order of Charles Emmanuel III, Duke of Savoy. Its first section comprises a list of all substances.....
Paris; Reims: Albin Michel; l'Atelier du Livre, 1992. Preface S.A.S. Le Prince Rainer III de Monaco. Large quarto (32 x 18 cm.), 294 pages. Illustrated with photographs by Jean-Louis Bloch-Lainé. FIRST EDITION. The first cookbook of Chef Alain Ducasse, with recipes for dishes served at his restaurant Le Louis XV in Monaco's Hotel de Paris. Fine in dust jacket. [OCLC locates thirteen copies].
Boston: Munroe and Francis, and Joseph Francis, Charles Francis, 1838. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), vi, 107, [5] pages. Advertisements. Eleventh Edition, Revised. A remarkable cookbook, in that it is considered the first to adopt the concise recipes formula, throughout, of a name, a list of ingredients, and a series of steps. The author did this with the intention of making the recipes, "intelligible to servants and persons of the.....
[New York: N.p.], 1935. Menu printed on orange silk (30.5 x 15.3 cm.), [1] page. Printed verso only. Menu for a banquet celebrating the 100th anniversary of the St. Nicholas Society. The menu for the banquet, held at the Waldorf-Astoria, includes some tasty dishes, including Parmesan Straws, Vol au Vont of Sweetbreads with Quenelles and Mushroom Regence. The toasts include one each to Santa Claus, Our City, and Woman. The.....
London: Ebury Press, 2008. Quarto (28.5 x 19 cm.), 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first of the nine cookbooks that made Yotam Ottolenghi's mouthful of a name into a household word, at least in households that like to cook. The book's inventive yet simple dishes are inspired by the childhoods of Sami and his business partner Sami Tamimi in West and East Jerusalem respectively, and.....
Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan & Co.; Trade supplied by C.A. Montgomery & Co., 1886, ©1886. Octavo in wrappers (16.5 x 13 cm.), 56 pages. Illustrated, and with fanciful initial letters for each chapter. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. One of the many of cookbooks from the domestic economist Catherine Owen, with much of the culinary advice drawn from the author's column in Scribner's Magazine. Some light soiling to some leaves. In.....
New York: A.J. White, Druggist, [1888]. Duodecimo-sized booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Issued by the A.J. White company, this almanac advertised their products, which were licensed from, and in some cases, made by the Shakers. Though not indicated as an almanac on the cover, a calendar for 1889 is included. Features profiles of some of the country's top chefs of the time.....
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[New York: Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper, Printers, 30 Beekman Street, 1885 ff.]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.5 x 12 cm.), [136] pages. Illustrated throughout. Title from cover. Date from page of medals received. Stated "Fourth Edition". There were at least three distinctly different works with this title, issued by the corporate author: (1890) 72 pages, with the Lalance and Grosjean Manufacturing Co name; (1891) 32 pages.....
Petersburg, Va. Fenn & Owen, Printers & Binders, [circa 1894]. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 206 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Indices to recipes and to advertisers. Author attribution from bibliographical records. Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook produced in support of the YMCA Building Fund of Petersburg, Va. The recipes, in short narrative form, are attributed with formal names, and include: Confederate States Pudding, Eggs on Foam, Marguerites, Zimmet Kitchen Buns.....